Darren Jackson Quotations

We grew earnings per diluted share by 85 percent in the first quarter of fiscal 2006, so it represents the most difficult earnings comparison for the coming year.

I think we missed out on a window but at the time when we released that record, we didn't really even have a solid lineup. Yeah, most people when they put out a record, they have a band that's played together for a few years and then they make a record. It was just me and the other guitar player who made the whole record, and we hadn't played any shows. I met the bass player at the photo shoot. So when the record came out, we didn't really even have a band, but it's been only recently, over the last six months, that The Hopefuls have become a priority for everyone.

We just couldn't make our shots under the basket.

We played great defense. But you can't win if you can't score.

What we have to do is get out there and get focused. Our concern is our team. When you focus on another team, you get in trouble.

This will be the first year when flat-panel truly becomes accessible to a broad customer group.

We had to change a lot of things with her. Once she learned and adapted to our system, it was like opening up and saying 'here you go.

At that point, I'm thinking we should be up by 18. We were playing great defense. We just missed a lot of easy shots.

The strong revenue momentum that we saw in December accelerated through January.

People generally think that all Minnesotans are just kind of naively nice. I don't think that's the case.

Oh, if we just could have made some of those shots inside. I don't even want to count the amount of shots we missed.

It won't be an easy road. But it's not that dark. We aren't going around the curve without the light on.

The Hopefuls have become one of the more popular bands in Minnesota. It's sort of the critics' favorite band, and this happened sort of out of the blue for us. We didn't expect anything like this, so now we're strategizing differently about how to go about promoting it.

The girls are enjoying the ride. I told them if you want keep the ride going, you can't underestimate anyone or look ahead.